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Twenty Thousand Hertz

CHAPTER

Creating the Environment for Sound

Kyle Gannigan says the first performance was an outdoor concert hall in Woodstock. It's really about creating the environment for which you can experience sound in a specific way, Nari adds. Kyle: John Cage was trying to get us to listen and this way of listening would have an impact far beyond music. Mindfulness and meditation are much more mainstream in the West now, but when John Cage created 433 they were relatively new ideas to Western audiences.

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